PM Modi declassifies files on Netaji

January 23, 2016 12:52

The Narendra Modi government on Saturday declassified some of the secret files relating to great freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

The files, digitised and given "preliminary conservation treatment" by the National Archives of India, were released on the birth anniversary of Netaji.

The iconic freedom fighter's family members, who had sought making public the documents hoping questions about his mysterious disappearance seven decades back would be answered, turned emotional upon seeing the files.

The demand for declassification of secret files with the Centre had gathered momentum, especially after the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal declassified 64 files in its possession last year.

Banerjee has maintained that she didn't believe that the freedom fighter died in air crash and demanded that the 'Russian angle' in Netaji's disappearance needs to be probed.

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